Random Thoughts Thread

[SpoonyBard]

Meh, I don't think I even cracked a smile when watching it.

"Take some pride in your job son, You sell cigarettes here!"

No idea why, but that line gets me every time. That one and the jab at Seth MacFarlane in the last episode. A good portion of the series is a little "meh", and the episodes that aired are probably the weakest of the six, but there are some fairly golden moments in that show.

Nowhere near as good as the movie though.

[BoneSnapDeez]

A guy responsible for a recent string of local burglaries has been caught - apparently he has been living in the woods for 27 years. A few miles from my house.

[Ziggy]

Post 6666

IDK, whatever.

[elmagicochrisg]

Post 6666

IDK, whatever.

* insert dramatic chipmunk here *

[elmagicochrisg]

Was just looking at my copy of Natural Born Killers.

On the cover it says: Director's cut. Contains over one hour of unseen, unedited footage.

The movie is 92 minutes long...

[johnny turbo]

My nephew is a teenager who posts stuff like this to his facebook. He is a mess. I haven't seen him since he was 5 or 6. He has all sorts of humorous marihuana related stuff on his Facebook. Proudly displayed only the way an idiotic teenager could do.

[Flake]

Somewhere on the Internet today, it was pointed out to me that Power Rangers is 20 years old now. Given that I fondly remember sitting down for the very first airing of the very first episode, this is a thing for me.

One thing that always bothered me about that show was the premise. The big robots to fight big monsters thing is fine by me - it's pretty logical, all things considered. It just bothered me that teenagers were given access to powered armor, directed energy weapons, and combat mechs the size of sky scrapers instead of, well, the military. Or at least adults with some form of paramilitary training.

The power rangers were freaking terrible at their jobs. You almost never saw Angel Grove going to any efforts to evacuate - whenever the power rangers tossed a giant eyeball or bat monster against a building and it exploded apart, it was a safe bet that you also just saw four or five hundred lives snuffed out. And they did it so casually. There was one episode where I think they might have actually picked up a building and used it as a club. A freaking club! Can you imagine a worse last couple of seconds for the people inside?

On top of that, you never saw the national guard making any effort to calm things down in the back ground. Maybe there was footage of the JSDF in the back ground of the original Super Sentai footage but that got edited out when Saban got their hands on it. It's like the US Military decided Angel Grove wasn't worth saving, like Bill Clinton had a grudge against Southern California or maybe the town was behind on its taxes.

[flojocabron]

Yellow ranger (Trini) is a girl in the US version of the show and a DUDE in the JP Sentai Rangers show.

[Flake]

Yellow ranger (Trini) is a girl in the US version of the show and a DUDE in the JP Sentai Rangers show.

And she's also dead in real life. Car accident in early September 2001, I think. They actually did that gender swap a couple of times, I think.

[CFFJR]

I never thought of the show that way before.

Suddenly it all seems so sinister.